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3 hours ago, chrisp65 said:

 

 

 

Just imagine writing that top quote about any other group and thinking it was funny, or legit, or clever.

We’ve probably all had bad experiences with some travellers, some asians, some Muslims, some black youths, some posh white bloke, some Brummie. But we’d all have the basic education to know not to call out a whole group as scum we hate that pop out babies to replace the dead ones.

As Tony points out, some of us have even had bad experiences with tories, but I’m not sure being anti tory can be described as racist. The tory thing just proves that a sub set of every type of person can be a bunch of shits, criminals with no morals and no sense of society. It’s perfectly alright to hate bad people. But it doesn’t mean everyone is like that. (For the record, I think I have recently outed a couple of tory friends that have been hiding in plain sight quietly nodding along every time the conversation turns to politics. I’m not sure why they’ve felt they need to go quiet, I’d genuinely welcome an open debate, but that’s by the by, I could learn something).

Meh, swing and a miss with my initial post.  I did label the entire group.  So sorry for that.

Even allowing for my personal experiences and people I know having nothing but negative things to say, I'm sure there are lots of decent, law abiding travellers.

There's no point listing the things I've seen because that's a small number of a pretty large group.

The baby thing I'll expand on though because that's what was shouted to me at work when I entered an abandoned industrial chicken Kiev factory and there was a bucket tied to a blue rope, with a 5/6/7 year old being lowered down through a narrow hole kicked through an appallingly thin asbestos roof, which was around 8m in height, so they could steal copper rods out of the three phase cable boxes and stripping cables.  Gave them spanners and cable strippers and everything.  So when the site manager I was with shouted "YOU'RE GOING TO KILL THAT KID!" 

The hole in the roof yelled back "can always have another!".  Which was that kids parent.  Endangering both himself and his child, in a very obvious way.  

So that's what that comment was relating to.

I've never knowingly spoken to a traveller, or been aquainted with one.

48 minutes ago, Mark Albrighton said:

I occasionally see a travelling community when I’m driving about. Typically pitched up on alongside an A road with their vardo waggons and horses (yes, I had to look up what the name of the waggon was when typing this). When I say occasionally I would say 3 or 4 times a year. Usually in the same locations.

I kinda have the sense that the travellers I see are relatively benign. I can’t really justify why I think that, they just come across that way. There is or can be damage to the gates and fences from the horses being secured to posts.

There used to be a wagon that pitched up on an island in Redditch, they used to sell wooden logs and other bits of wooden craved stuff.

Was quite famous around Xmas time.  Don't know where they ended up the rest of the year.

There was also a wagon when you pulled off the dual carriageway in Cornwall around St.Agnes for years.  Also now gone.

4 minutes ago, Davkaus said:

There's some selection bias there though isn't there.

To my knowledge I've never met a traveller that isn't kicking off, or committing some sort of crime. I guess the question is, how would I know? The people that go about their business without being a pain to the locals, who raise their kids well, well, you're either not interacting with them, or if you are you probably wouldn't assume that they're travellers.

I know what they're all plotting, the bastards  

No, you're absolutely right, there must be some "alright" ones, but it's highly unusual on the rare occasion I've met/see a group of them, they are all being dickheads.

I know it's not very VT to tarnish an entire group of people because of a few isolated incidents personally affecting an individual, but gypsies are **** scum.

I feel for the kids somewhat, that they will almost inevitably fall into the same fate as their scummy parents have, but I absolutely hate them. 

The parent's don't even care for their kids, they'll literally put them in life endangering situations for metal in some cases.  They can always bang another few out to replace the dead ones though, innit. 

1 minute ago, VillaChris said:

The new Wembley is such a dull place to watch a game isn't it? Top level match and barely any atmosphere whatsoever. Old Wembley had such a buzz about it for nights like this but barely anything so far.

I was just saying the same thing.  Atmosphere is as flat a pancake.

Everyone agreed too, which is unsurprising, as I'm alone in a shitty Ibis hotel room eating Maoam's and I was talking to myself. 

I'm almost tempted to turn it off and look at the 3 coat hangers on the weird, tiny open wardrobe thing, but I am persist. 

25 minutes ago, Kiwivillan said:

Oh dear. Appears he lied about his age and country of origin

 

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I love Halloween.

Orange, purple and black are cool.

Spooky goodness! 

I'm 36, I'll be middle aged in 4 years.

Deal with it.

90% of us ain't getting to 90, let alone 100.

I hope I don't, urgh.  Give the kids the planet and make some space.

2 minutes ago, AVFC_Hitz said:

What sort of a player is he?

To be honest, he's quite good at everything for his age.  Technically he's got a lot of scope for improvement with his batting, but he's got a really good sense of timing the ball and he's a big hitter for his age.

Bowling, again, LOTS of room for improvement, but he's a classic medium/fast right arm pace action and usually quite consistent, which I think they like.  He can hit the stumps from 18 yards about 6 or 7 out of 10 times.

His fielding is really strong.  He's awesome at catching and he has really good reflexes, not sure where he got that from, but he's pretty quick, has a good arm, can catch well.

But I think they liked the fact he's not scared of a hard ball, which is key at this age apparently!

I like cricket, but have only really done so for 10 or so years.  Which means all of the technical side of it, I can't really help him with unfortunately.

55 minutes ago, wishywashy said:

I don't like the sound of "betting ring" at all....

I do, if it's her "betting ring". 

Australia dropping catches left right and centre against SA and then the SA batsmen getting 6s after, makes my heart sing

The Americans over the last couple of pages

Just bad people really. 

There's loads of lovely, decent people who'll help you out if you ever needed. 

But there's a very vocal minority who are greedy on the basis of creating friction/drama/hate etc. 

Just get rid of them and I'm good to go. 

I include monetising rage-bait in that, because it makes normal people do shitty things, because its "easier" than doing anything which provides value.  

I know it's not a lot of peoples thing, but I'm quite enjoying seeing Halloween decs up in the odd spots.  I think we could get way more mileage out of Halloween, it's fun and I get to eat loads of sweets  

7 minutes ago, bickster said:

You appear to have substituted VT for your wife. Please find a small heath forum  

I'd be banned.

You guys are too forgiving.  Idiots. 

1 minute ago, StefanAVFC said:

If you send her gay porn on Messenger on a regular basis like you do to me then I'm not surprised your humour doesn't match.

Ooh, you just reminded me. 

Cheers  

Glad to hear @Jonesy7211, seems like things are on the mend.

I'm very similar with my humour NOT matching my wife's humour, she gets really annoyed with some things I say, which I just think are playful.

But when I think about it, I can understand why it's annoying and tiring, so I've tried to alter my humour to not have an affect on her (or the kids!).

Hopefully we can both learn not to keep cracking jokes at inappropriate times!  

Ahhh the last two pages have been good for the soul.

Well done all

One good road in Poland!

There's only one good road in poooollllannd!

Onneee good roooaaad in pooollland

(And Stefan's is shit)

Ay @StefanAVFC, does the land owner have a big gate around the outside of the development, with a gate which says "Arbeit macht Frei"?

And is telling you all to make the road yourselves n'that?